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  • How to: Write HTML-Kit plugins
     
    HTML-Kit's functionality can be extended using plugins that range from buttons for inserting code to specialized utilities to advanced side-by-side applications. This document includes information on how to get started and where to look for samples, tutorials and other details related to developing plugins.
     
  • How to: Get the full text in the editor using a hkScript plugin
     
    The code in this document demonstrates how to write a plugin in hkScript to retrieve the full text in the current editor.
     
  • How to: Add new functions to the Plugins Generator
     
    This document is a work in progress; it aims to describe all aspects of adding new functions to the Plugins Generator. This facility makes it easier to generate custom code in all supported languages.
     
  • Information: Output window remains empty after running HTML Tidy
     
    HTML Tidy may not update the Output window after checking certain files. This document describes possible reasons and solutions.
     
  • How to: Create a text input box in hkScript
     
    This document describes how to create a text input box in hkScript.
     
  • How to: Write preview plugins
     
    This document explains how to write plugins that can update/modify content sent to Preview and Active Preview windows.
     
  • How to: Write context menu plugins
     
    Starting with HTML-Kit Build 292, the editor context menu can be dynamically updated using plugins. This document contains sample code that can be used to create right-click menu plugins and with dynamically created icons.
     
  • How to: Draw icons at runtime
     
    This document lists the commands that can be used to draw plugins related icons at runtime.
     
  • How to: Add new commands to the Command Prompt
     
    This document describes how to write plugins that can handle commands issued using the Command Prompt.
     
  • How to: Write page wizards
     
    This document describes how to write page wizard plugins that can be used to generate basic page templates, files for framesets, and other types of initial pages.
     
  • How to: Write batch actions
     
    This document describes how to write plugins that can run in batch mode using the Batch Actions Wizard interface.
     
  • How to: Create interactive templates (visually)
     
    Get started in authoring interactive templates that can prompt for user input and dynamically update the output. No programming experience is required since these types of templates can be created using the Plugins Generator's graphical user interface.
     
  • Information: Sample Code Cross-reference for Plugin Developers
     
    This document is a cross-reference of HKPAPI functions / parameters, and hkScript functions that are found in the sample plugins and other published plugins with source code written in all supported languages.
     
  • How to: Create keyword help files
     
     Keyword Help
    Would you like to have context-sensitive access to your bookmarks and other references related to HTML tags, CSS properties, and other items? This document describes how to customize HTML-Kit's F1 keyword help system to include new references.
     
  • Information: hkScript Compatibility Reference
     
    This document lists which hkScript functions can be used in HTML-Kit 290/292, XSCL, InputWizard, and hkLAP.